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If you had foreknowledge that your employees wanted input (via a union) on employment conditions, and then you unilaterally push an arduous employment condition on them, you have violated the spirit of what they are seeking.

People with loooong memories will say that Islamic Palestine arose after the forcible removal of Jewish culture from the area after the Jewish wars against Rome, at which point the Romans relabelled the area from Judea to Syria Palestina. Therefore the idea that Palestinians are 'indigenous' is in contention, since the diasporic Jewish people retained their language and customs in the interim, and then sought refuge in their land of origin throughout the early 20th century and beyond. Even the word 'semitic' describes a cultural (language) origin in the Middle East, so to describe Palestine as occupied (and therefore the Jews as being interlopers) is technically "antisemitic". I don't think these things excuse the human rights abuses caused by the current state, but its opponents often call for its dissolution based on their 'rightful' ownership of the land which is a gray area.

The administration change indeed has a lot to do with this. New chairs at the FCC (Rosenworcel) and FTC (Sohn) have a much more antitrust bent than in the past. The layoff announcements are connected if you take it that M&A in big tech has been out of control for years, but it's tangential.

Would an eGPU enable certain laptops to do this? I get that that's 'cheating', but also is it? I need a shit ton of peripherals to run my Mac workstation

God knows China and the US were not bringing the consumer protections!

Durable isn't a great word for what Facebook has become. It's been LinkedIn-ified - the entire notifications category is filled with useless recommendations and suggestions rather than meaningful updates from connections. And they still put notification dots up for it. Even if there's an opt out option and I could 'filter that' I haven't seen anything else relevant in 1+ year.

Worse, the MP was clearly giving them the run-around from previous meetings. Sending police to ask questions the citizens themselves likely answered in their emails, or answerable via telephone, is an escalation of this tactic. Political assassins seem very very unlikely to politely inquire about attendance.

I take so much shit for 'ruining the group chat' when it's always the complainants devices that is blocked from sending high resolution pics to poor people. Drives me fucking bonkers when I point out that their reactions to it are precisely why it's not being fixed.

Gets even worse on mobile. Android supposedly lets you turn some types of notifications off, so unscrupulous companies put all their notifications, ranging from necessary to pure advertisement, under one type.

Looking at you, UberEats. The tradeoff for knowing my food is arriving should not be a business being able to interrupt my goddamn peace of mind at any hour it wishes.

Can confirm this is my stack at a fortune 500 web/entertainment company.

I don't find these examples particularly compelling. Likes to cite examples of overreach but never describe the counter arguments.

i.e. peremptory strikes. Jury selection was clearly, with many many examples, used in the past to create a group not that was not the defendant's 'peers'. Even with the '86 court ruling that nominally ended peremptory strikes on the basis of race, most lawyers recognize (as do Gerrymanderers) you can find related reasons to strike them within the realm of plausible deniability (i.e bias against police).

The author presents no reasoning from those in favor, only disgruntled and largely anonymous counterpoints.

Furthermore, the praise of S African policy is a cherry picked example and clearly far outside the mainstream. One American official praising an approach is hardly a bellwether.

Re: Kyle Rittenhouse, citing one example as a potentially adverse ruling ("liberals would hate to convict this black man!") is hardly a good counterargument towards vigilantism. Just this week, a Florida 70 year old was acquitted after shooting dead a man who threw popcorn in his face. Even if we had to admit there is no perfect middle ground (may or may not be true), I think over-convinction of vigilantes is clearly preferable to allowing greater death and destruction through the furtherance of stupid legal theories like Stand Your Ground.

"Get lawyers involved" certainly shouldn't include situations where you simply CC them and they don't respond. No legal advice is given.

The existential crisis of Judaism is indeed a core issue, although I am of the opinion that it does not justify the tactics and laws present. That does make it an Apartheid state.

However, OP used no semantic sleights and the suggestion he did is concerning to discourse. He was describing its origins, and you its current conditions. If you reject the idea the Jewish people would like / need a homeland then just say that.

The demographic difference between the two is staggering. If all Palestinians received right of return to Israel, Jews would immediately become a political minority.

The Germans had no equivalent statistical reasoning other than racism.

Think about the context before you compare people to Nazis

Especially in tennis where tournaments are designed to be 'open', that is semi-professional and allowing for amateur entrants. If he were professionally affiliated with a particular country, that might be an extenuating circumstance.

But as he is a private citizen seeking glory in AU, it's inappropriate to make an exception in this case.

Exactly. Running 'the world's largest vaccine information campaign' rings hollow when it's really a mitigation effort. That's akin to saying that the Valdez tragedy and subsequent clean-up made Exxon the top environmentalists of '89.

That's what I wonder. Early VR adopters/technologists hate what happened to Oculus and there aren't a lot of newcomers to that market. I don't think cheaper headsets are going to fix that in the near future so I don't know whom they're targeting. Seems risky to lean into something where the experts already think you screwed up.

Quote from the St Louis Post Dispatch article is even more groan-worthy:

"In the letter to teachers, Education Commissioner Margie Vandeven said “an individual took the records of at least three educators, unencrypted the source code from the webpage, and viewed the social security number (SSN) of those specific educators.”

I guess webpages are kinda like encryption for idiots.

Depends where we source them, for example American-made clothing is already prohibitively expensive to the economic demographic segments that are targeted by UBI experiments.